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Designing the past: the National Trust as a social-material agency [PDF]
, 2009 The National Trust was founded in 1895 for ‘the preservation of places of historic interest or natural beauty’. While the distinction between the cultural and the natural seemed obvious at that time and members and visitors were not even implicated ...
Fox, Dorothy +2 more
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Nuclear Engineering and Technology, 2020 Most of irradiated graphite that should be disposed comes from moderators and reflectors of nuclear power plants. The quantity of irradiated graphite could be higher in the future if high-temperature reactors (HTRs) will be deployed.
Silvia Pozzetto +5 more
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ReligionsThe Eastern Minyag is a small community located east of Gangkar Mountain (Chinese: gongga shan) in Southwest China. Their complex rituals, performed by ritual specialists (sutcywu), serve various purposes: diagnosing the causes of individual psycho ...
Valentina Punzi
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Fashioning liminal space : the meaning of things and women's experience in the practice of domestic shrine making in Aotearoa/New Zealand : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Social Anthropology at Massey University [PDF]
, 2003 This paper aims to bring together two lines of analysis that converge upon the specific spaces that are women's domestic shrines. One line examines the material culture of the spaces and objects on the shrines of ten different women and seeks to reveal ...
Savage, Deirdre Anne
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The arterial border: negotiating economies of risk and violence in Mexico's security regime [PDF]
, 2017 This article examines the material and ideological dimensions of what I conceptualise as Mexico's 'arterial border'. Since the late 1980s, transit routes in Mexico's interior have increasingly become sites of a diffused migration enforcement strategy ...
Vogt, Wendy
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Heterogeneous Networks Underfoot: the Agency of Colorful Socks
Вісник Харківського національного університету імені В.Н. Каразіна. Серія: Соціологічні дослідження сучасного суспільства: методологія, теорія, методиThis article examines the role of objects as active agents in the production of social relations and group formation, using the case of colored socks in the Ukrainian context.
Vladyslav Tyaglo
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At the Potter’s Wheel: An Argument for Material Agency [PDF]
, 2007 Consider a potter throwing a vessel on the wheel. Think of the complex ways brain, body, wheel and clay relate and interact with one another throughout the different stages of this activity and try to imagine some of the resources (physical, mental or ...
Malafouris, Dr Lambros
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Data Materiality and Social Agency [PDF]
, 2021 In the data-rich environment of the 21st century, it has become critical to understand the implications of data materiality and the impact it has on social agency. With the recent passage and introduction of legislation, specifically in the United States, targeted at marginalised communities, it behooves us to take a deeper look at the role of data ...
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Understanding agency in interaction design materials [PDF]
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2012 We draw on the concept of agency in order to understand the process of how design materials 'talk back' to designers. In so doing, we illustrate the various levels at which agency can emerge in the context of intensive short-time prototyping sessions.
Jakob Tholander +2 more
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Third-party copyright and public information infrastructure/registries: How much copyright tax must the public pay? [PDF]
, 2011 In a case currently before the High Court of Australia (Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) v NSW ) the fundamental question at issue is whether the owner (in this case surveyors) of copyright material (in this case land survey plans) that is submitted as ...
Atkinson, Benedict, Fitzgerald, Brian
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